Product Description

IBM's VisualAge for Smalltalk is a complete system for developing powerful client applications. This book shows developers how to succeed with versions 3.0 and 4.0 of VisualAge. It covers helpful background information on the Smalltalk language, the common graphics subsystem, the common widget subsystems, and visual programming in VisualAge. It serves both as an introduction to the Smalltalk language and to the base classes of IBM Smalltalk. Programmers with and without previous Smalltalk programming experience will find it useful. Code examples illustrate VisualAge, Smalltalk, and the use of graphics widgets and reusable parts on VisualAge. The book includes a disk that contains Smalltalk expressions and statements, source code segments from examples, Smalltalk classes, and descriptions of examples of visual and nonvisual parts. It provides a 90-day introductory test of IBM Smalltalk 4.0 on CD-ROM.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1358231 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

Badly editied and organized, but is a must-have
This is one of the very few, if not the only book on IBM's VisualAge Smalltalk. It covers much of the v4 product, but is badly edited with errors in both the text and in the code. Its organization is also confusing, forcing the reader to swap back and forth among the chapters. Still, being about the only source of information on this fine Smalltalk system, this book deserves a place in the bookshelf of every developer using VisualAge Smalltalk. If it just were better written and organized, it would have earned four stars.